The Velvet Rope

September 29, 2009

I'm No. 1!

Aaron Carter's pick to win "Dancing With the Stars?" It's Aaron Carter, natch. "There are no if's, and's or but's or possibilities or chances," the "Dancing" contestant said during a radio interview Monday, according to people.com excerpts. "I'm going to win Dancing With the Stars." Gee -- confident much?

Apparently yes, according to Entertainment Weekly. The lauded Emmy Awards host and Broadway baby will perform a "big-ass musical" number for the show's 100th episode to appear in January. "There will be a huge Barney story culminating in an enormous musical number," says show executive producer Craig Thomas. Sounds fan -- wait for it -- tastic.

Staying power

Jenny Slate apparently doesn't have a [bleepin'] thing to worry about. The "Saturday Night Live" newbie, who dropped the f-bomb Saturday on the show's premiere, will keep her job on the NBC show, ew.com reports. Surely this news is just [bleepin'] golden for her, right?

Digit

10.2 million

Number of viewers that tuned into the eighth season premiere of "The Family Guy" on Fox, its biggest audience in more than a year, according to eonline.com.

High roller

Britney Spears closed out her seven-month "Circus" tour Sunday night with a surprise appearance from Lance Bass -- who got a lap dance from the pop star for his troubles, according to Access Hollywood.

"My good friend Lance surprised me on stage last night," Spears blogged Monday on her Web site after finishing the North American leg of her tour in Las Vegas. "It was soooo funny!"

To celebrate, Spears dropped $3,000 at a Vegas candy shop, buying candy and shirts for her kids and couture lollipops for her backup dancers, people.com reports.

Cuomo + Dupri + Lil Wayne

Rivers Cuomo is throwing a party on the new Weezer album and he's invited a few new guests to help him out. The bespectacled front man has teamed up with R&B giant Jermaine Dupri and rapper Lil Wayne on the new track "Can't Stop Partying," reports mtv.com. Cuomo and Dupri co-wrote the track, with Cuomo adding an "some darkness" to Dupri's "slick, R&B party ideas," according to mtv.com.

Lil Wayne added his own edge to a verse. "You can hear in his voice, it sounds so dark, like he was gonna get shot or something when he walks out of the studio," MTV quotes Cuomo as saying. "Raditude" drops Nov. 3.